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  • Jihad vs. McWorld

    Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

    by Benjamin Barber ...
    Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are tearing apart--and bringing together--the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it depends.On the one hand, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Aristocracy of Everyone

    by Benjamin Barber ...
    In this brilliant, controversial, and profoundly original book, Benjamin R. Barber fundamentally alters the terms of the current debate over the value of opportunity in American education, politics, and culture.Barber argues that the fashionable rallying cries of cultural literacy and political correctness completely miss the point of what is wrong with our society. While we fret about "the ... Read more

    Was $6.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • If Mayors Ruled the World

    Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

    by Benjamin R.,Barber ...
    In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change and the Politics of Interdependence

    by Benjamin R. Barber, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.We have created a system in which votes made with the dollar speak louder than votes at the poll. Today’s capitalism, Benjamin Barber argues, makes little distinction between wants and needs. Half a century ago, the model capitalist was one who ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Conquest of Politics

    Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • Fear's Empire

    War, Terrorism, and Democracy

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary HartThe author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, Benjamin R. Barber exposes in detail the folly of an agenda of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Passion for Democracy

    American Essays

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A Passion for Democracy collects twenty of his most important writings on American democracy. Together they refine his distinctive position in democratic theory. Barber's conception of "strong democracy" ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • The Truth of Power

    Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along?President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet most often he disappointed the big thinkers whose advice he sought.Benjamin Barber was first invited to Camp David in 1994, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Cool Cities

    Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate changeClimate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book, renowned political theorist Benjamin R. Barber describes how cities, by assuming important aspects of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theories of Democracy

    A Reader

    by John Locke, Thomas Paine, Alexis Tocqueville, John Rawls, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Winthrop, Horace Mann, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Arthur Bentley, Robert Dahl, Joseph Schumpeter, Anthony Downs, John Dewey, Benjamin Barber, Max Weber, Noberto Bobbio, Michel Foucault, William Connolly, Jurgen Habermas, Mahatma Gandhi, Jean-bertrand Aristide, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Liberal/Democratic Divide, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Phillips, John Stuart Mill, Iris Marion Young, Aung San Suu Kyi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Aristotle, James Madison, Robert Bellah, Chantal Mouffe, Cornel West ...
    Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Education for Citizenship

    Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning

    by Joseph Cammarano, William Ball, Richard Battistoni, Kimberley P. Canfield, James D. Chesney, William D. Coplin, Otto Feinstein, Linda L. Fowler0, John F. Freie1, Glen Halva-Neubauer2, Naeem Inayatullah3, Marc Lendler4, Daniel W. O'Connell5, Craig Rimmerman6, Mark Rupert7 ...
    This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD